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Halston, né Roy Halston Frowick, is one of high fashion's best designers -and best business minds. Unheard of 15 years ago, he built a custom and ready-to-wear business that will sell $28 million worth of high-priced fashions this year, including thousands of "ultra suede" dresses that go for $220 apiece...
...professor then at the University of Pennsylvania, now at Stanford, and his tactics soon began to pay off dramatically. Amsterdam and other lawyers won a stay from the Supreme Court in one case while the racial bias issue was being considered, scored a legal first with a previously unheard-of class action habeas corpus petition that blocked all Florida executions, and then in 1967 won a stay for everyone on California's death...
...fall. Last week the prime hit that level much earlier, and no one voiced the slightest belief that that would end the dizzying ascent from 6% in January. Bankers and economists are now forecasting a series of further rises to 10½% or even an unheard...
Whether militant like Horta or moderate like Velho da Costa, active Women's Liberationists have been virtually unheard of in Portugal, where old ideas about "a woman's place" are so deeply ingrained that few women are even conscious of them. Yet when New Portuguese Letters came out in April 1972, one-third of the original printing of 3,000 copies was sold within a month. Then the regime of Premier Marcello Caetano cracked down. Officials invoked a new law that makes writers criminally responsible for their work if the censors, who render judgments only after publication, voice...
...owns the Perera offices, wonders how Perera's staff will get through the summer. "They are already exhausted, and the peak tourist season has not yet started," he says. Gold, the traditional refuge of people who suspect any paper money, soared at one point last week to an unheard-of $ 127 an ounce in London, about triple its official price in dealings between governments...